As such, I find myself wondering if he is equally incensed by the birth rate of black babies to single mothers, many under the age of 18, many more without a father to be found. Or the abysmal graduation rate of black students. Perhaps he is angered by the thug life so many black youths choose, or the filth and degradation toward women that black rappers spew in the name of “art,” accompanied by their glorification of violence and prison life. Those folks are taking the place of fathers in the “teaching” of your youth.

I wonder if the millions of black babies “murdered” by abortionists (Kermit Gosnell ring a bell?) angers Mr. Cromartie. Talk about killing the innocent!

I wonder what he is doing to improve the lives of young black residents of Bay County. How many has he personally rescued from a life of poverty and/or hunger? How many has he personally mentored, and taught to live a good life, to raise the children they have fathered, to honor their mothers and partners, to follow the rules and laws society has laid out for ALL people, regardless of race. I wonder how many he has taught to be a credit to their race, whatever race that may be.

I wonder ...

A 17-year-old male was shot, not because he was innocently walking down the road in the middle of the night in a neighborhood recently suffering from robberies and theft, but because he put himself in the position of attacker. It is tragic that he had to die; it would have been equally tragic if he had indeed succeeded in killing George Zimmerman, which appears to have been his intent.

If Mr. Martin was a scared child, stalked by a grown man, instead of calling a girlfriend, why didn’t he call 911?

I won’t even begin to mention all the subsequent retaliations on innocent whites by gangs of black youth. Fear not, the liberal media won’t mention it either. I was told once, “Never hold others to a higher standard than you hold yourself.” This seems apropos.

CANDICE HERITAGE Panama City

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For those who doubt the race hatred resolve of the clandestine Southern Confederacy ideology that relegated black males to nothing more than property, it is presently forever vested in the Florida “Stand Your Ground” laws, and in the thoughts and actions of an all-white woman jury of the George Zimmerman trial.

Contemplate the most recent American legal vomit that has been spewed upon the sensibilities of the world with the Zimmerman not guilty verdict. Now is the time for all good men and women of the world to come to the aid of the African-American who obviously cannot defend against institutional racism expressed through the actions of the American criminal justice system. African-Americans have a right to live, not to be incarcerated en masse or shot during their prime years so they cannot procreate. Our unarmed children shouldn’t be shot down in the streets, and their killing unreasonably justified in the American courts.

Florida especially has shamelessly flaunted its lack of humanity when it comes to the life of the African-American, from the Claude Neal lynching to the mysterious African-American gravesites at Marianna’s Dozier School for Boys, to the killing of Trayvon Martin.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was correct when he said that white American racism is a sickness unto death. Only dead souls could have found that the killing of an unarmed child was legal. Neither the white American nor the African-American can save themselves. White Americans and African-Americans need interventions from other countries that have wrestled with and overcome the oppressive nature of Western European racial hatred.

PELVO WHITE JR. Marianna

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